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3 thoughts on “Euthanasia and aggressive medical treatment”

My mother was hospitalized due to complications from gall stones in 2007. She ended up in a coma with a respirator for a while.

Long story short, she ended up with a perforated small intestine. Rather than “aggressive medical treatment” which would not necessarily improve her quality of life (or guarentee her survival), she opted to simply “go home”… her words… she was ready to go home…